“Tucker 2024 is itself a media creation. He’s a guy who has made his name in journalism, writing print and saying things on television, the son of the Ronald Reagan-appointed director of the Voice of America and longtime friend of the one and only Roger Stone, the GOP provocateur and felon who probably had more to do with nudging Trump’s political ambitions into reality than anyone else” writes Business Insider’s Tom LoBianco.
“Anyone watching Carlson now can see he’s clearly using his platform speaking to millions of people to seize his conservative Howard Beale ‘mad as hell’ moment. What’s remarkable is that it is happening as the Trump White House he once championed looks to be in its own 2020 death spiral and the nation writhes in an economic free fall spurred by a pandemic.”
“Whether Carlson himself has his own White House ambitions, he isn’t saying. Last July he did joke he would be ‘insane’ to run for president, but then posited that, if he did, a possible winning platform for a Republican would be talking about a social issue, like the challenges of raising kids in the current US economic climate.”